Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promised banks that it would catch up on its current interest payments by March 31, from sales of coffee, cotton, meat, and sugar in the early part of the year that provides the majority of the country's revenue. Meanwhile, there has been talk of possible Sandanista intervention to prevent a good harvest which would help to restabalize the economy...
...vital step would be to shore up the friendly Bulent Ecevit government in Turkey. Said Tahtinen: "We have to find a way to keep the present Turkish government afloat, to provide it $2 billion a year for the next five years to prevent a collapse." The aid should come, Tahtinen felt, not only from the U.S. but from other NATO countries and possibly Saudi Arabia, "which has an interest in stability in the region...
Graduate students themselves concur with Bowersock's argument that professors ideally are the appropriate tutorial leaders. John Gibbons, graduate student Government tutor, agrees that "professors are simply better scholars." However, professors and the University have long ago set priorities that prevent student exploitation of these Faculty skills. Robert N. Brandon, a graduate student who taught Philosophy tutorial three years ago, said the problem partially arose from "faculty members' disinterest in teaching in general, because this is a major research university." Brandon added gently, "It is not that they don't like teaching so much. They just like other things better...
Assistant City Manager David Vickery said the bill, sent to the State House last month by the City Council, would prevent institutions from buying property and then converting it from taxable housing property to tax-exempt "educational uses." "It is getting a little bit ridiculous," Vickery said, adding "a lot of property is being taken off the tax rolls...
...tenants in Harvard-owned buildings at 7 Summer Rd., who recently received eviction notices from the University, told the committee the legislation is necessary to prevent other such evictions...